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Clustered Colouring of Odd-$H$-Minor-Free Graphs

Combinatorics 2024-10-22 v2

Abstract

The clustered chromatic number of a graph class G\mathcal{G} is the minimum integer cc such that every graph GGG\in\mathcal{G} has a cc-colouring where each monochromatic component in GG has bounded size. We study the clustered chromatic number of graph classes GHodd\mathcal{G}_H^{\text{odd}} defined by excluding a graph HH as an odd-minor. How does the structure of HH relate to the clustered chromatic number of GHodd\mathcal{G}_H^{\text{odd}}? We adapt a proof method of Norin, Scott, Seymour and Wood (2019) to show that the clustered chromatic number of GHodd\mathcal{G}_H^{\text{odd}} is tied to the tree-depth of HH.

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@article{arxiv.2308.15721,
  title  = {Clustered Colouring of Odd-$H$-Minor-Free Graphs},
  author = {Robert Hickingbotham and Dong Yeap Kang and Sang-il Oum and Raphael Steiner and David R. Wood},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.15721},
  year   = {2024}
}